Deception IV: Blood Ties

Anime RPG for Vita and PS3

By revisiting an older Tecmo game, Deception IV brings back interesting strategies to modern gamers

Those who play Deception IV: Blood Ties are in for a really interesting twist in the way that the game is played. The object is to prevent the enemy from ever reaching the player. To do so, the player has to end up using a variety of traps to keep them from approaching. This is certainly a lot different from the game play in many other titles.

Using Traps in the Game

Players can choose between rolling boulders, flames, spring boards, electrocution, spiky walls, bathtubs that fall out of the sky, an iron maiden, railway locomotives, human cannons and other types of traps to ensure that the enemy is defeated. Proper timing is always the best, considering that one false move will make the traps instead activate on the player. Combinations that are used to humiliate or brutalize the opposition make up a main portion of the game play. By using the touch screen on the PS Vita players are easily able to set off different types of traps, which make it ultimately more suited for handheld gamers than those who would have played the original game on a full sized console.

More or less the game follows Laegrinna, who is a daughter of a demon that created her using a fragment of his own soul. These twelve Saints who sealed him up using certain scriptures then defeated the devil. The Holy Verses were divided into 12 different objects that were sent to descendants of the saints. By collecting them, Laegrinna is going to be able to help out her father. Those interested in the story will probably start to wonder whether they had intended to make the player character evil, or whether there will be some plot twists considering the verbiage the developers ultimately elected to use.

Deception on Vita

While it's certainly not the first RPG to come to Vita, it's going to be one of the best according to all of the remarks people have made about it. It combines both storyline with an action RPG feel, which is different from many games in this category. In fact a few people have even started to make comparisons with the Children of Mana release a few years back for Nintendo DS.